Posted on WBAN’s Facebook by Malissa Smith of Girlboxing. According to Smith, this was republished in the...
Sue TL Fox
Sue "TL" Fox, Multi-Hall of Famer, award-winning pioneer boxer rated #1 in the world in 1979, and creator/founder of WBAN™. She was named in the Feb. 2012 Commemorative issue of Ring Magazine as one of the Top-Ten Most Influential female boxers of all time. Since its inception on the Internet 27 plus years ago, WBAN has become the world’s leading authority for resource and information in female boxing. Fox outside the
ring is a professional musician and a retired police officer from Oregon. She also created and founded the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014. [In April of 2025, in Las Vegas, Fox will celebrate the 12th year anniversary of the IWBHF, and 27th year of WBAN as of May 18, 2025.]
Women in boxing since 1722. In that year, Elizabeth Wilkinson and Hannah (Ann Field) Hyfield advertised they...
(excerpt only ] In London from the 1720s onwards, bouts were staged between women from labouring trades...